Our science text book and a couple of websites like http://home.att.net/~cat6a/fuels-II.htm
say that biogas can be used for "street lighting". I don't understand in what way. Can anyone explain? Does it burn the gas or something?
2006-10-17 02:45:20 · 4 answers · asked by dylan_colaco 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Well, normal street lighting went out of the gas powered
phase back in the very early days when we had
gas street lights, and people who went around lighting
them.
Probably what you read had to do with the electric
generating stations being operated on biogas fuel
to generate electricity to power the street lights...
That might work if all street lights were rewired
to operate off of that power source instead of the commercial power lines.
2006-10-17 02:57:16 · answer #1 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-25 20:41:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lamps were hooked up to natural gas lines instead of electrical lines. They ran like a gas stove. Most popular burning gasses such a methane and propane are biogases.
2006-10-17 16:29:12 · answer #3 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I mean really! Do we want to power our street lights with bovine flatulence? I don't think so!
2006-10-18 09:00:56 · answer #4 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋